Is the nuclear status of an embryo an independent factor to predict its ability to develop to term?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Fauque, Patricia ^a,f   Audureau, Etienne ^b   Leandri, Roger ^c   Delaroche, Lucie ^d   Assouline, Stéphanie ^e   Epelboin, Sylvie ^d   Jouannet, Pierre ^e   Patrat, Catherine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^d BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^e Centre universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

^f DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Birth; embryo morphology; embryo quality; implantation; nuclear status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOMA; CELL KINETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 84875758005     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.12.028     Document Type: Article

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